Authors: Heelas, David Martin (With), Paul Morris
ISBN-13: 9780631198482, ISBN-10: 0631198482
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
Date Published: June 1998
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Paul Heelas is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Lancaster. His last book, The New Age Movement (Blackwell, 1995), has met with critical acclaim and he is also a Series Editor for the new Blackwell series Religion and Modernity.
David Martin is a Lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Lancaster.
Religion, Modernity and Postmodernity is the first book to engage the study of religion with contemporary theorizing about culture. It addresses important issues such as whether there are postmodern forms of religion, whether theories of religion framed in terms of modernity can be recast to suit new or emerging circumstances, and how the study of religion can be better integrated with recent developments in the study of culture.
List of Contributors | ||
1 | Introduction: on differentiation and dedifferentiation | 1 |
2 | Cathedrals to cults: the evolving forms of the religious life | 19 |
3 | Terminal faith | 36 |
4 | Postmodern religion? | 55 |
5 | Tradition, retrospective perception, nationalism and modernism | 79 |
6 | From fundamentalism to fundamentalisms: a religious ideology in multiple forms | 88 |
7 | From pre- to postmodernity in Latin America: the case of Pentecostalism | 102 |
8 | Secularization and citizenship in Muslim Indonesia | 147 |
9 | Religion and national identity in modern and postmodern Japan | 169 |
10 | The construals of 'Europe': religion, theology and the problematics of modernity | 186 |
11 | Post-Christianity | 218 |
12 | Kenosis and naming: beyond analogy and towards allegoria amoris | 233 |
13 | Sublimity: the modern transcendent | 258 |
14 | The primacy of theology and the question of perception | 285 |
15 | The Impossible | 314 |
Index | 332 |